As I see it, it is looking as if the world is panicking a bit over Ebola.

Ok, maybe it is a horrible way to die and it is very difficult to treat, but because it is only caught by person-to-person contact and through infected bodily fluids, it should be very easy to control in the modern and hi-tech countries.

I think the scariest quality of this disease is it's long gestation period where anyone that has been in contact with it does not show the symptoms until about three weeks later. This means that infected people can travel long distances, especially by plane, while carrying the disease and not showing any symptoms.

This is the area where the authorities are going to have to clamp down on.

Sounds reasonable to me, as, if they did quarantine these three African states it would only need to be for three or four weeks and until all of the infected people there had been found and quarantined until they either died or got better.

That might sound a bit callous, but such an act could save thousands of lives both in greater Africa and in the rest of the world.

So far there has only been one imported case of Ebola in Britain and that one has been quickly quarantined.

While I don't agree that any serious number of cases will appear in Britain, "in three weeks", as the threadstart says, I do think that we should not panic even if we do learn as much about this killer disease as we can.

Thanks for the link Angie, as info' like that is always welcome on ROB.

The latest news is even more scary as the World Health Organisation ( WHO ), now say that the spread of this virus is no longer contained in the first three West African states of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, as it has now spread to a number of the larger African states further West.